About the Book
USE KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION TO MAXIMIZE VALUE FROM TODAY'S SOPHISTICATED, FAST-CHANGING SUPPLY NETWORKS
- Build integrated, complementary supply networks that work together to win
- Accelerate the cycle from needs identification to product/service launch to customer experience
- Create long-term strategy adherence to the business that competes in fluid environments
Leading companies are developing powerful new techniques for managing today's complex, fluid supply networks. Now, Alexandre Oliveira and Anne Gimeno help you apply these techniques to embed greater agility, resilience, speed, and intelligence throughout your own supply chain network. Oliveira and Gimeno review how supply chains
have changed, how they
will change, and the radically new challenges and opportunities arising from these changes. Next, they show how to drive value by capturing and sharing your network's knowledge far more effectively, and using it to drive innovations that strengthen the entire network. Going far beyond previous models, they guide you in improving interactions across all knowledge areas, functional supply chain building blocks, business structures, tactics, and external elements-including suppliers, customers, service providers, competitors, and non-competitors. Today, individual companies don't compete: their
supply chain networks do. Winning businesses must be capable of sensing and anticipating market shifts, and rapidly aligning their networks in response. In a word, their networks must be
wiser. In this guide, leading practitioners Alexandre Oliveira and Anne Gimeno show how to embed actionable wisdom throughout your own complex supply network. You'll learn how to create multi-company structures that promote the long-term success of your entire network, and how to accelerate innovation by leveraging knowledge and ideas from all network sources. Using practical examples, Oliveira and Gimeno demonstrate how to evolve more resilience and elasticity, building a network that can respond more quickly and coherently to any new risk, opportunity, problem, or trend.
Managing Supply Chain Networks is invaluable to any strategist, executive, manager, or advanced student who wants to drive greater value and competitiveness from a complex supply chain network.
- PRESENTING AN EVOLUTION TO PORTER´S FIVE FORCES MODEL
Detailing how to add value to shareholders and stakeholders in highly competitive business environments - BUILDING INNOVATION-ENABLED KNOWLEDGE LEADERSHIP INTO YOUR NETWORK
Strengthening long-term knowledge development and retention across your network - IMPLEMENTING MECHANISMS THAT INCREASE NETWORK RESPONSIVENESS
Optimizing connections, architecture, functions, and human interactions - MANAGING RISK MORE SUCCESSFULLY IN NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS
Transcending limited "firm-centered"risk management strategies - PROMOTING GREATER COLLABORATION ACROSS YOUR NETWORK
Using visibility, vendor selection, culture, governance, and other methods
About the Author:
Alexandre Oliveira is a founding-partner at CEBRALOG (www. cebralog.com), a supply chain consultancy and training company headquartered in Brazil since 2001. Alexandre has also been President of the Brazilian Institute of Supply Chain Professionals (I.B.S.) since 2007. He offers courses for MBA programs at Business School São Paulo and is a regular contributor to seminars, conferences, and congresses. Alexandre began his career at Procter and Gamble, where he gained executive experience in manufacturing, quality assurance, and logistics in assignment in Brazil and in Europe, but for the past 15 years, he has developed his career as consultant. Alexandre has worked as a senior consultant, trainer, and expert advisor for companies such as GE, 3M, Sony, Bayer, Pepsico, Pernod Ricard, Unilever, Avon, Adidas, John Deere, Eaton, Walmart, Motorola, and several others. Alexandre holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master in Finance degree from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp, Brazil) and a Master of Science (Honors) degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from Cranfield's University School of Management, United Kingdom. Since 2001, Alexandre has actively influenced logistics thinking in several supply chain organizations. He chaired the Logistics Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham, Brazil, 2001- 2004), chaired the Supply Chain Committee at the British Chamber of Commerce (Britcham, Brazil, 2006-2007), and he was Regional Vice-President of former Brazilian Logistics Association (2002-2003). He has lectured in MBA courses since 2004 in top regional universities such as State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and State University of São Paulo (USP). Alexandre has published in the
International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management and coordinates the Operations and Supply Chain Academic group at LinkedIn, which currently has nearly 20,000 members (March 2014).
Anne Gimeno is a founding-partner at CEBRALOG, a supply chain consultancy and training company headquartered in Brazil since 2001. Anne has also been the Managing-Director of the Brazilian Institute of Supply Chain Professionals (I.B.S.) since 2007. Anne began her career at Procter and Gamble, where she gained executive experience in materials planning, sales, and customer service. For the past 15 years, she has worked as a senior consultant for companies such as GE, 3M, Bayer, Pepsico, Pernod Ricard, and several others. Anne holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master of Science (Honors) degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from Cranfield University's School of Management, United Kingdom. She served as the director of the former Brazilian Logistics Association (2002-2003).
